My current issue is i see you guys constantly having issues, editing files etc.

Is it not stable?

Can you not set it up and then not have ongoing issues?

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    This is a forum where people seek help. Of course you’re going to see problems here. Nobody posts “hey it’s been several years and I’ve had no problems.”

    Of course linux is stable. It runs like 80% of servers on the Internet.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
      281·
      9 months ago

      Can confirm. I’ve been using Linux for nearly 30 years… I don’t post questions on forums. Bug reports for OSS projects, on the other hand…

      • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
        14·
        9 months ago

        Also can confirm. Been using Arch, which most people consider requires more fiddling than other distros, for almost 10 years now and have had few issues with it. I’ve had to fix my Windows install more than my Linux.

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
      191·
      9 months ago

      Hey, it’s been well over a decade, and the largest problem I have is a crippling addiction to distro hopping…

      • Laser@feddit.de
        5·
        9 months ago

        Personally, I don’t get the appeal of distro hopping. I think it’s nice to try different concepts, but there aren’t that many.

        You basically have the “classic” distributions, like Debian, Suse, Fedora and their derivatives and if you want those split up into the stable and the rolling distributions (Arch, maybe Debian Sid). Then there’s the source-based distributions, most notably Gentoo and derivatives. Declarative distributions, NixOS and GUIX system. And then maybe the newer breed of immutable distributions like Fedora Silverblue.

        To me, the difference between an Arch system and Debian are kind of minimal. Yet I’d always prefer Arch. But why would I hop to OpenSUSE?

        Granted, I always install from the terminal anyways and build my system to my needs, so I usually don’t get the default experience.

          • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’m going to do my best to “wait” for PopOS 24.04 before I hop out again. It seemsbI finally got Endeavour right, with hybrid graphics and all. The only pain was actually how long it took to install Lubre Wolf. Ah, and that the first attempt at installing flatpaks, nothing was showing up after install until I rebooted. But now they work as expected.

    • krash@lemmy.ml
      5·
      9 months ago

      Only 80%?!? I assume *BSD isn’t counted in that number. I really can’t see people running windows on their servers…

      And to be honest, server stability != display server stability.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        To be honest I pulled the 80% out of my ass… It was the first reasonable looking number that came up on a quick search.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Of course linux is stable. It runs like 80% of servers on the Internet.

        I assume *BSD isn’t counted in that number.

        BSD isn’t Linux.